Division during combat operations against an armed enemy in korea on sepp 4, 1950. That evening under cover of darkness and a dreary mist, an enemy battalion moved to within a few yards of Master Sergeant penas platoon. Recognizing the enemys approach, Master Sergeant pena and his men owned fire, but the enemys sudden emergence and accurate pointblank fire forced the friendly troops to withdraw. Master Sergeant Pena rapidly reorganized his men and led them in a counterattack which succeeded in regaining the positions they had just lost. He and his men quickly established a defensive perimeter and laid down devastating fire, but enemy troops continued to hurl themselves at the defenses in overwhelming numbers. Realizing that their supply of ammunition would soon make their positions untenable, Master Sergeant pena covered his mens withdrawal. He single handlely handedly held back the enemy until he was killed. Master Sergeant Penas extraordinary heroism and the selflessness at the cost
Helpful in terms of look at future . And a related question is you determined they were established because of the tremendous amount of resources that were being put into these twop countries. Is the role of the special Inspector Generals simply a kind of surge capability, or do you bring something to does a special Inspector General bring something greater to this effort than the igs of the particularly agencies of the gao . Okay. Let mel quickly on the proposal that stewart bohen had and then ill answer your question. The answer is yes to the last part of your request e. Ill go into more detail. Stewart did make that recommendation. Again, i gefr that i dont do policy, i do process. And so i dont really think its my position to recommend, and i havent been asked, to recommend creating or not creating an entity such as stewart recommended. I will say this. This helps to answer your second question. I got enough authority, enough power, enough resources to do the job. I like temporary
Provinces. They give me a better feel, and actually get a better feel than the embassy gets. Whether our government will be able to continue working with them, i dont know. Its going to be the difficulty of getting out there. Ch and thats a serious problem. Thats why i so much encourage, you know, helping the ngos in afghanistan, whether its on oversight or green issues, health issues. Because theyre the ones with the eyes and ears. Theyre out there. Theyre community based. Thats what were going to have to rely on. And were toying with an idea to yutz the ngos. To be our eyes and ears to monitor programs. Thats more difficult. Tths not the gold standard. We have to, who is watching the watchdogs . Who is going to watch the people, you know. So thats a whole process that we have to do. We have to deal with the ngos. We cant forget them. We cannot forget an independent press. Let me just be clear here. The reason the reason chicago organized crime and the al capons and the mafias did not
Dollars. From the American Enterprise institute, this is just over an hour. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Im arthur brooks, president of the American Enterprise institute. And were delighted to welcome all of you today to this event, entitled poverty to prosperity. So, this is bill gates. Thank you. With his wife, melinda, hes the cochair and cofounder of americas largest private foundation, the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. They work to reduce poverty and expand health care overseas and to improve education here in the United States among other things. Previously, he was the chairman and ceo of microsoft, the Worlds Largest software company, which he cofounded in 1973. Most importantly, like me, hes a native of seattle and somewhat of a seahawks fan, which is good. But thats not what were here to talk about. Were here to talk about his incredibly important work with the foundation, the work that hes doing here and around the world. He shares so many of the priorities of th
Press. Let me just be clear here. The reason the reason chicago organized crime and the al capons and the mafias did not only take over country is not only because of brave law enforcement, brave press. And it was the press. If you want to expose problems in afghanistan, we have to support the independent local press. Those are the eyes and ears. And if we had more independent press in some countries, maybe we would have better rule of law in some countries. I low that out. Thank you. I know that were running over. And i appreciate you taking two more questions if we can. Happy to do it. And i apologize. I talk too much. We have the lady in the front, and then in the third roud. If you could please ask your questions, one after the other, and keep them short. Identify yourselves. My name is farrah stockman. I work with the boston globe. Ive been to afghanistan several times. Im wondering if you can say a few words about the commanders Emergency Response and the military has been pushin